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Old 07-18-2010, 12:08 PM   #26
Dale
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Originally posted by Nicki:
Just tried this on my Windows7 Premium machine. Left everything in the installer at default and it went in perfectly, putting the screensaver file in SysWow64.

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Took me forever to set up a desktop shortcut, something I could do in XP in less than a minute.  
I don't understand why your experience was different from:

Originally posted by Mountainmaster:
This installer does not work on 64-bit Windows versions. It will try to install in c:\Windows\system32 but instead the OS redirects the installation to c:\Windows\SysWOW64. Paradoxically system32 is only accessible to 64-bit programs. 32-bit programs, such as Morgan's installer, are redirected to SysWOW64.

The installer will seem to work initially because when it sets MA as default screensaver it uses MA 3.1 which it installed in c:\Windows\SysWOW64. However, when you set another screensaver as default and then try to pick MA again it will revert back to the old 3.0 version which is still in c:\Windows\system32.

The start menu shortcut also points to this old 3.0 version.  
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